Life of The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 37
HOSPITALITY When the Promised Messiah as claimed to be the Reformer of the Age, Qadian was a small, remote, unknown village. Despite there not even being a railroad track that had reached Qadian, news spread far and wide and people came to Qadian in droves. In this regard, God revealed to him, َ وَسِّع ْ مَكَانَك Enlarge your house. 35 This was in order to accommodate those who would come to meet him out of love. At another time, it was revealed to him by Allah Almighty that so many people would come to him that the road on which they would travel would become rutted. Hazrat Shaikh Yaqoob Ali Irfani ra was a Companion of the Promised Messiah as from Hyderabad, Deccan. A poor student at the time, he travelled to Qadian for the first time in 1893. It was already evening when he reached Batala, about twelve miles from Qadian. There were no means of transport from there on and he did not fully know the way. He was also carrying some vegetables and his belongings